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[It's very rare that Rose graces the network in Wonderland, only having appeared once since she arrived here. That in and of itself makes this particular video rather curious. The subject at hand, likely one that's playing on everyone's mind but has Rose looking more than a little unsettled, despite her attempts to play at casual.

Clearly, she thinks the best way to deal right now, is to attempt to overdose on sugar; A plate piled high with an assortment of pastries, appearing in the corner of the shot.]

So... That whole thing with the Wonderland that wasn't really Wonderland?

[Her eyes narrow, teeth running over her lower lip as she carefully considers what she wants to say before giving it voice.]

We're all in agreement that it didn't really mean anything, right? It was just some, fake, alternate... you know, thing?

[She's obviously reaching but all this 'sciencey crap' is way outside of Rose's wheelhouse.]

Another one of Wonderland's stupid little mind games. [The unmistakable air of somebody trying to convince herself.

Rose breaks off a large chunk of a donut and pops it into her mouth, a flicker of doubt creeping in as she chews slowly.]

Right?

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[It's unlikely that Rose needs to answer for Peter to have his suspicions confirmed, the tension that comes with being put on the spot more or less giving her away. Almost anyone else and she might not have answered, or at the very least? She would have been bitchy about it.]

Yes, and no. [She didn't usually acknowledge her human side, but after being in Wonderland, surrounded by humans? She had to admit that in most ways, she was more like them than she was the Moroi.]

How much do you think you know about Vampires?

[ He can't help his curiosity about her. He had his suspicions that she might be different, extraordinary. But more than that, he cares about her. This darkness that seems to be surrounding Rose; the world that she's from -- it's something Peter wants to understand. ]

If you count that one time I watched Interview with the Vampire, I guess... not much? [ His mother might have dressed him up as Count Dracula once for Halloween back when he was a kid, but he had more of a hunger for lollipops than a thirst for blood so he's not going to mention that. ]

So, nothing then. [Managing to summon up a half grin, even if it doesn't sit easily on her lips. She could stop now, find some lie to feed to Peter, but not only does she want somebody to talk to about all this, she actually wants that somebody to be him.

The image on his screen jostles as Rose reaches for her device, fumbling with it as she tries to change their conversation to private the way Simon had tried more than once to show her. It fails, of course, but she doesn't realize that as she sets it back down.]

Almost nothing anyway. [Her smile becoming more of a grimace.] The whole, Vampire with a soul thing? I wanna say it's a load of crap but... There is a race of Vampires known as the Moroi. They're born, not made and they're gentle.

[Well, that was debatable. They weren't killers but she'd met her fair share of asshole Moroi in her life.]

And they're in danger of becoming extinct because of another race of Vampires we call Strigoi. Moroi blood makes a Strigoi stronger, faster, harder to kill so they hunt them.

[Rose likes to imagine that somewhere, one of her teachers is impressed that she really did pay attention in class. Of course, this was just the kind of thing that people like her grew up knowing. Bedtime stories in the Moroi world weren't suitable for most children, not that Rose had ever been read one.]

There is a third race, though. Half Moroi, half human. We're called Dhampir and we're raised to become Guardians. We're what stands between the Moroi and extinction, for both our races.

[He'd see now as he looks at his screen, a tension radiating through her body, a look of apprehension that comes with waiting for fear or rejection.]

[ He nods a little at her mention of him knowing pretty much nothing about vampires because it's true -- anything fictional probably doesn't count. Peter pays serious attention to her explanations about the different kinds of vampires that are part of her world. It's like nothing he's ever heard of really. Vampires hunting down other vampires. That's definitely new. Humans have always been number one on the menu -- at least according to fiction.

The tensed look on Rose's face doesn't go unnoticed and he tries to school his expression, making an attempt to seem at ease about all of this. It's a lot of information to digest though.

Before he makes a verbal response, Peter checks to see if the conversation's been switched to private mode, notices that it's not and does just that. ]

So if a Strigoi's food of choice is the Moroi, what does a Moroi and a Dhampir feed on? [ Yes. He's interested to find out about the vampire pyramid food chain. ]

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[While much of the damage is done, she would still be grateful to him for fixing the feed, especially if the subject of Lissa comes up.

The fact that he hasn't completely freaked out is enough for her to work with. There was a reason why, only two people in Wonderland had ever learned much about who she really was. One of them, was gone and the other? Well, she was still waiting to see how this conversation with Peter would go.]

A Strigoi will happily feed on a Dhampir as well, we're just harder to kill and our blood's not as potent. [Some even prefer Dhampir.] Moroi eat food like people do, but they still need blood to survive. Dhampir don't feed, we're just, like everyone else.

[She can do this, 'the facts', even if she feels a bit like a walking textbook. She's learned her flippant replies tend to create confusion for the worst, so she's trying here; Mostly because it matters to her that Peter understand.]

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